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Sir Max Beerbohm 1872-1956
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Description
- Sir Max Beerbohm
- Evenings in Printing House Square
- signed, inscribed with title and dated 1911; further inscribed Lord Northcliffe: ''Help! Again I feel the demons of Sensationalism rising in me. Hold me fast! Curb me, if you love me!''
- pen and black ink and wash and pencil
- 31 by 40cm., 12 1/4 by 15 3/4 in.
Provenance
The Times, until at least 1972
Exhibited
London, New English Art Club, 1911 (Winter);
London, Leicester Galleries, Max Beerbohm, 1913.
London, Leicester Galleries, Max Beerbohm, 1913.
Literature
Max Beerbohm, Fifty Caricatures, William Heinemann, London, 1913, illustrated;
Rupert Hart-Davis, A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm, Macmillan, London, 1972, no.1118, p.107.
Rupert Hart-Davis, A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm, Macmillan, London, 1972, no.1118, p.107.
Catalogue Note
Lord Northcliffe (1865-1922) had become proprietor of The Times in 1908. He was the subject of a number of Beerbohm caricatures.